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Campbell's Kingdom (novel)

Campbell's Kingdom is a 1952 thriller novel by the British writer Hammond Innes. A British man, ill and largely inactive since the Second World War, inherits land in the Canadian Rockies. He travels there to investigate his grandfather's instinct that there are valuable oil reserves under the land.

Campbell's Kingdom
First edition
AuthorHammond Innes
Cover artistKenneth Farnhill
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreThriller
PublisherCollins
Publication date
1952
Media typePrint

Innes wrote about his travels in Canada to research Campbell's Kingdom in Chapter 5 of his non-fiction book Harvest of Journeys (1960).

Film adaptation edit

In 1957, the book was made into a British film of the same name directed by Ralph Thomas and starring Dirk Bogarde, Stanley Baker, Michael Craig, and Barbara Murray.[1]

References edit

  1. ^ Goble p. 238

Bibliography edit

  • Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.


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